Immediate past Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, have dragged Governor Hyacinth Alia, and the state
government before a Makurdi High Court over an Asset Recovery Committee recently set up to recover government properties from the past administration.
Ortom who filed the suit alongside his Deputy, Benson Abounu, is seeking the court to determine whether the property legitimately allocated to them as entitlements and remuneration could still be considered as state government assets.
He is also seeking an order of “injunction restraining the defendants, by themselves, agents, successors or privies, from violating the plaintiffs’ individual and collective rights to own property validly vested on them by the Benue State government.”
